A woman works retail and worries about how to make it as an actress in LA. To remedy her social and financial problems, she bonds with a teenage co-worker and dabbles in sex work, despite her nagging concerns.

Compiling notes for an English essay, a sixteen-year-old girl recounts her middle-class upbringing, kleptomania, and eventual coercion into prostitution and assisting with drug use. After she suffers violence and abuse, she is eventually rescued — but the experience traumatizes her.

A woman in a small Wyoming town reflects on the end of her marriage as she watches another woman fall apart in her own relationship.

An overly sympathetic woman never allows herself room for hatred— even as her suffocating boss stalks and harasses her.

When a Cuban American high schooler decides to attend college out-of-state, she must confront her ambiguous feelings about her family, hometown, and identity from a distance over the next several years.

A daughter is left to be raised by her grandparents after her teen mom disappears, only to find herself in her senior year, pregnant and forced to leave her child with her grandparents as she joins the army.

While on the run from her crack-cooking boyfriend, a woman feels at odds with her place in life—literally and figuratively.

Nita, a young millennial in Chicago, decides to record interviews with her hook-ups as part of a sociologically-influenced art project. But when she falls in love with one of her subjects—a woman with an obscure past and a web of scars on her back—Nita finds herself drawn into a supernatural world from which she may never return.

In the suburbs of LA, a brother-sister duo hope to reach fame through appropriating Black hip hop culture. While at first successful, a series of missteps cause them to confront the tensions between their Asian identity and the Black people they seek to emulate.

A teenage girl living in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles deals with her father's suicide and attempts to find a job in order to support her family.